Welt



Oct. 1, 1940.

W. C. VIZARD WELT Filed Feb. 17, 1940 Patented Oct. 1, 1940 WELT William G. Vizard, Brockton, Mass., assignor to Barbour Welting Company, Brockton, Mass, a eopartnership composed of Perley E. Barbour, Walter G. Barbour, and Richard H. Barbour Application February 17, 1940, Serial No. 319,470

13 Claims.

This invention relates to an improved welting for shoes and a method of producing said welting. More particularly, the invention provides for the production of a bead which is formed from a separate piece of the welting stock, reversed in position after being cut from the stock, folded and seated on top of the portion'from which it was cut, being preferably secured there by cement. The exposed shoulder of the bead which faces outwardly from the welt is the only portion thereof which is of flesh stock. This may be filled and stained so that its appearance simulates grain stock.

A welt wherein the bead is formed in the manner specified and applied to the body of the welt as stated, results in an economical method of manufacture and .the production of the article which when completed, is durable, attractive in appearance, and possesses also other advantages which will be apparent to those skilled in this particular art.

As a modification of the above described beaded welt, the welt is provided with a pinked edge due to the serrated line of out separating the bead portion from the body of the welt, the former being turned around and seated upon the latter in a manner similar to that described in connection with the preferred form of the invention. The pinked edge of the bead which is exposed may be stained before using, if desired.

The accompanying drawing illustrates a preferred form of the invention, as well as the modified form referred to, such drawing indicating the sequence of steps of the method of production of both the preferred and the modified forms, and in which Fig. 1 is a view in perspectiveillustrating a flat fillet of welting partly divided into two strands, with the-innermost, facing edges of the strands chamfered to provide two facing rounded edges;

Fig. 2 is a view in perspective illustrating a strip of welting material and the cut partially separating the main body portion of the welt from the bead strip;

Fig. 3 is a view in perspective showing the bead strip when separated from the main body of the welt with the bead and flange elements cemented and molded together, preliminary to the application of said strip to the main body of the welt;

Fig. 4 is a View in perspective of the assembled Goodyear welt with the cemented and molded bead strip applied thereto;

Fig. 5 is a view in perspective of a welt fillet or strip separated along the center by pinking to form two Welt strips each having a pinked edge, formingthe elements of a modified construction;

Fig. 6 is a view in perspective of this modification, similar to Fig. 2, illustrating the form of cut separating the pinked bead strip from the main body of the welt;

Fig. 7 is a View in perspective of this modification, similar to Fig. 3, illustrating the bead and flange portion of the bead strip folded upon each other and cemented and molded, and

Fig. 8 is a view in perspective similar to Fig. with the modified bead strip and Goodyear welt assembled, the flange portion of the bead strip being cemented to the recessed space in the base, formed by the out which severed the bead strip from'the main body of the welt.

Referring to the embodiment of the invention illustrated in Figures 1 to 4 inclusive of the drawing, in which a welt having a plain or grained face has the bead strip cut from the body of the welt, reversed in position and applied thereto, if grained leather is used, 4 is a fillet of double width required in the production of a single welt. This fillet if required for two welting strips of standard width, would be of welting material by welting, or of any other suitable width to produce two welt strips of standard or desired width. The fillet 4 is divided centrally by a longitudinal cut, as at 6, with the upper corner -of each divided fillet rounded at 8 by the removal of strips l0 therefrom, which is preferably done by the cutting tool which divides the fillet.

Each of the two strands l2 of the divided fillet, is then subjected to a cutting operation by a tool which removes from the main body of the strand a strip M, the formation of the out which separates this strip from the strand l2 being indicated at it, that portion of the strand or body of the welt. l2 from which the strip I4 is removed forming an inclined, exposed seating surface 18, while the beading strip is formed of the flange 20 and bead 22. Referring to Fig. 3 of the drawing, the next step in the process consists in cementing and molding the flange 20 and bead 22 of the bead strip I4 together, which results in the bead strip being formed as shown in Fig. 3.

Subsequently, this bead strip is reversed in its position and cemented to the seating surface ill of the body of the welt, I2, as shown in'Fig. 4,

thus completingthe bead-ed welt strip, it being observed that when produced by the successive steps of the method herein described, the only part of the bead which is flesh stock is the shoulder 30 of the bead which faces outwardly when the bead is assembled with the body of the welt,

as shown in Fig. 4. This exposed shoulder may be easily filled and stained so that it looks almost like grain stock, and in the finished beaded welt strip this filling or staining of the exposed shoulder 30 is in practice ordinarily resorted to.

In the modified form shown in Figs. 5 to 8 inclusive of the drawings, Figure 5 illustrates a fillet which originally may have been of double width required for a single welt strand 32, the fillet in its original form being divided centrally by pinking 34 with the cutter deep, the original fillet being, for example, by A,", making the over all width of each strand wide. As

shown in Figure 6, the beading strip I4 is separated from the main body of the welt by a cut I 6', leaving an exposed seating surface l8 on the main body of the welt, the bead strip [4 being formed with the flange 20C, and bead 22'. As shown in Fig. 7, the flange 20' and bead 22' of this modification are molded and cemented together, like similar parts of the preferred form above described, and thereafter the bead strip I4 is reversed and cemented to the seating surface l8' of the body of the welt, as shown in Fig. 8. The pinked edge 34 of the bead strip, as shown in Fig. 8, faces outwardly and may be filled and stained so that the raw, flesh edge of this portion of the strip will be of the same color as the exposed upper face of the flange l4 thereof, which latter is, or may be, also filled and stained as will be obvious.

The nature and scope of the invention having been indicated and its preferred embodiments having been specifically described, the invention in its true scope is defined-by the following claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. The method of making beaded welting which comprises providing a welt strip, severing from said welt strip a bead strip element comprising a flange and bead, securing together the flange and bead, and reversing the bead strip and applying it to the recess formed when the bead strip was severed from the original welt strip.

'2. The method of making beaded welting which comprises providing a fillet of welting material,

dividing said fillet into two strands with the facing corner of each strand chamfered round, severing from said strand a bead strip by a out which forms in such separation a flange and bead on the bead strip and includes the rounded corner formed upon the fillet of the original welting strip, cementing together said flange and bead, reversing the bead strip and securing the same while in reverse position to the recess formed in the separation of said bead strip from the original fillet of welting material.

3. The method of making beaded welting which comprises cutting a flat fillet of welting material into two parts longitudinally of said material and forming upon the upper facing corner of each of said parts a rounded chamfered edge, severing by a cut from one of said fillets a bead strip comprising a flange and a bead and including the said rounded corner, cementing together the flange and bead of said bead strip, reversing, and securing said bead strip to the recess formed in the removal of said bead strip from the original strand of welting material.

4. The method of making beaded welting which comprises providing a strip of welting material, severing by a cut from said material a strip of beaded material comprising a flange and an angularly extending bead, cementing together said flange and bead, and securing said bead strip by engagement of said flange with the recess of the strand of welting material from which said bead strip was removed.

5. Shoe welting comprising a strand of welting material having in one edge a recess from which a bead strip has been removed, in combination with said bead strip having a flange and a bead, said flange'being secured in said recess with said head projecting upwardly from the main body of the welt material laterally beyond the recess, said upwardly projecting edge being flesh stock and the remainder of said head strip and said strand of welting material being grain stock.

6. Grain leather shoe welting comprising a strand of welting material provided at one edge portion with a longitudinal depression forming a seat, in combination with a bead strip having a flange, a bead angularly disposed with reference thereto, and a rounded corner at the junction of said bead and flange, said flange and bead being cemented together, and saidbead strip being applied to said strand of welting material with the flange of said bead strip fitting said seat and the bead projecting upwardly from the surface of sai strand.

'7. Leather shoe welting comprising a body having along. one edge a recess formed by removal of the material of a welting strip from said edge, in combination with said welting strip provided with a flange and a bead projecting angularly therefrom and cemented to .said flange, said bead strip being applied in reversed position to that which it occupied when removed from the welting strand to said recess, and cemented thereto with the bead projecting upwardly beyond the face of said strand.

8. The method of forming welting material comprising dividing into two-strands a fillet of welting material by a out which forms. pinked edges upon the adjacent edges of the two strands, severing from one of said strands a strip of beaded material by a out which forms a flange and bead upon said strip and includes an outer pinked edge, reversing said strip, and applying it to the recess in said strand formed by the removal of said strip therefrom.

9. The method of forming shoe welting com prising dividing into two strands a strip of welting material by a line of division which forms in the adjacent separated edges of each strand a pinked edge, separating from one of said strands by a out which forms a recess therein a strip of beaded material having a flange and a bead and including one of said pinked edges, cementing together said bead and flange, reversing the bead strip, and applying the same to the recess formed by the removal of said strip from the strand of welting material.

10. The method of forming beaded shoe welting comprising separating by a serrated line a fillet of welting material to provide two strands having their adjacent edges pinked or serrated, separating from one of said strands a strip of beaded material comprising a bead and flange and one pinked edge, cementing the bead and flange of said beaded material together, and applying said beaded strip to the recess formed by the separation of said strip from the strand of welting material, and securing said strip in said recess.

11. Shoe welting comprising a body of welting material provided with a recess longitudinally of one edge thereof, a strip of beaded material comprising a flange and a bead projecting therefrom and cemented to said flange,'said strip beingpro vided with a pinked edge, and reversed and applied to said recess in the strand of welting material with said pinked edge facing outwardly from the outer edge of said bead strip.

12. Shoe welting comprising a body of welting material provided along one of its edges with a shallow recess, in combination with a beaded strip removed from said recess and comprising a flange and a bead projecting therefrom and cemented to said flange and an outer serrated edge, said strip being applied to said strand in position reversed from that which it occupied before it was severed from the strand with the serrated edge facing outwardly and the flange of said beaded strip lying within and secured to said recess.

13. Shoe welting comprising a strand of welting material provided at one edge portion with a longitudinal depression forming a seat, in combination with a bead striphaving a flange, and a bead angularly disposed with reference thereto, said flange and bead being cemented together,

and said bead strip being applied to said strand of felting material with the flange of said bead strip fitting said seat and the bead projecting upwardly from the surface of said strand.

' WILLIAM C. VIZARD. 

